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Set all NaN elements in sparse matrix to zero

What's the equivalent of the Matlab statement X(isnan(X))=0 in R? Note X is of type of matrix.csr in R. (This is from pkg:SparseM.)

Solution

  • Are you sure you want to use the matrix.csr class? It is from the SparseM package and as far as I can tell, at least from the package documentation, there are no is.na<- or is.na[ methods. The Matrix-package does document is.na-methods:

    > library(Matrix);M <- Matrix(1:6, nrow=4, ncol=3,
+        dimnames = list(c("a", "b", "c", "d"), c("A", "B", "C")))
> stopifnot(all(!is.na(M)))
> M[2:3,2] <- NA
> M[is.na(M)] <- 0
> M
4 x 3 Matrix of class "dgeMatrix"
  A B C
a 1 5 3
b 2 0 4
c 3 0 5
d 4 2 6

    The Matrix package is now one of the recommended packages. My impression is that SparseM is not in widespread use.